I've bought Nokia in the past because of the good camera, good battery life and good price. Those things aren't os features or apps but they do matter to me.
If crackers were using them a lot and there were viruses in the wild that were using them, then people would have quickly found out about those bugs and patched them. I think the reason they stayed hidden for such a long time was nobody really exploited them.
You don't need to have 55 trillion dollars for the simple reason that you don't need to pay off all your debts in one lump sum. When you earn money you make a payment on your debt, and then the lender will probably use that money to buy stuff, or simply lend it again to someone else (who will use it to buy stuff). For example imagine if you are a grocer and make a payment to your banker, he can then turn around and buy something from you with that same money, which you can then use to make another payment to your debt, which the banker then uses again to buy something from you, and so on, until the entire debt is paid off. In effect, you've paid with goods in the end. Money was just the medium of exchange.
My guess is quality will go up as manufacturing leaves China
When it leaves China for what? Vietnam, India, Cambodia? Cause those are the countries with even cheaper labor. No, quality won't go up, you'll still get what you pay for.
I use PayPal because you don't have to disclose anything to the sellers, you don't give a credit card number. I've heard they charge a few percent of the entire sum for each transaction though.
Also, a lot of people who live near the Chinese border in North Korea can make phone calls to the outside world because there is cell phone coverage coming from China that extends a few miles across the border.
Yes, but IE9 has the disadvantage that it's not compatible with XP, so for 50% of the users the best version of IE they can access is IE8. I don't know how fast XP will fade but that alone might help Chrome and Firefox pick some converts who can't upgrade to IE9 because they're on XP.
I wish there could be an opt-in for having two passwords - one for regular sign-in, and one which you could use to reset your ordinary password in case it's compromised. The second password would never be used unless your first password is compromised, so it can't be intercepted. If it's complex enough that it can't be simply guessed, then I don't think you need any more security than that.
Same thing happens a lot with torrent sites, if you search for a torrent that's not there you get a lot of results in sites where the page is created when someone searches for that torrent on the site. They usually create the page and then put links to it in a ''previous searches'' section in their site. That way when someone searches on google for that torrent he goes to that page. It's quite ingenious actually, you depend on the users themselves to create the content by asking questions, and then users that ask the same question on Google will land on your site. It's frustrating for me because I land on a page that just says ''no torrents found'', except for the sponsored ''full version''/''high speed download'' crap.
And how are they going to peg their currency to the dollar then? What happens with their competitive advantage? Suddenly Chinese goods will not be so cheap compared to other countries.
Iron is really a scam, it just hardcodes turning off a checkbox in Settings->Under the hood that has the following title: "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar". See, there is a checkbox in Chrome for turning off the 'evil' communicating with google's servers. But if someone thinks it's easier to download a fork rather than bother to go and uncheck that checkbox, then more power to them.
I found an iteresting article from the Chromium blog (at http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.html) where they post the logs the log of September 19, 2008 from their IRC channel where someone nicked <Iron> says he wants to make a 'privacy-oriented' fork of Chrome:
<Kmos> Iron: why not contribute to it, instead of forking ? <Iron> because i removed all privacy-related code <Iron> e.g. RLZ <Iron> and URL tracking every 5 seconds after start <Iron> the original chrome is heavily communitating to google...i
hate that <jamessan> all of those are supposed to have options to disable them,
iirc <Iron> yes but they haven't options yet <Iron> and nobody knows when the next beta is released <jamessan> so work on getting the options added so they'll be there
for the next release <mgreenblatt> Iron.. why not propose a patch based on preprocessor
defines that disables the sections you dislike without
forking the code? <mgreenblatt> (assuming such a thing doesn't already exist) <Iron> because a fork will bring a lot of publicity to my person and
my homepage <Iron> that means: a lot of money too;) <Kmos> rotflol <Iron> what means rotful? <mgreenblatt> Iron.. you're a large corporation that can dedicate the
time to support a fork of something as complicated as
chromium? <Kmos> Iron: google about it <Iron> yes there is enough time to support it <jamessan> heh, you're expecting to make lots of money from making a
fork of chromium? that's quite amusing <Iron> i dont take money for my fork <Iron> but i have adsense on my page;) <Iron> a lot of visitor -> a lot of clicka > a lot of money;) <Kmos> and do you think google should support your fork <Kmos> lol <mgreenblatt> Iron.. it's always good to have dreams;-) <Iron> we are here in germany <Iron> the press will love my fork <Iron> i talked to much journalists already <DrPizza> Why are you forking? <DrPizza> to do what? <Iron> to remove all things in source talking to google;) <jamessan> to get fame and fortune <Iron> nobody here trusts google <Iron> the german people say: google is very evil <jamessan> yet you use google's adsense
Don't forget the price was 'insanely' cheap. If someone offered you a 500 GB disk for say $10 that later turned out not to work, I guess you would be excused from being called a sucker, but only if you honestly believed it was stolen.
I have no idea why, but the submitter put a link to the mobile version of the CNBC article. I noticed the URL is http://m.cnbc.com/id/39618344/, and removed the 'm.' part, and the page loaded, no problem.
PulseAudio has a problem for me when I switch to another user account in Ubuntu, and then switch back, the sound has become muted, even though the volume control shows it's supposed to be unmuted, and I need to mute and then unmute it with the Fn keys, and then increase/decrease the volume, before I can hear sound again.
I don't live in the U.S., and half the people I know under 30 use Facebook but I don't know anyone that uses Twitter. I wonder how Twitter fares outside America.
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You're joking, but seriously, I wonder which species do qualify for animal protection. Mosquitos, slimy worms, etc., they're animals too after all.
Moons orbiting a gas giant planet would also solve the tidal locking problem for red dwarf stars.
... and jam every other day.
I've bought Nokia in the past because of the good camera, good battery life and good price. Those things aren't os features or apps but they do matter to me.
If crackers were using them a lot and there were viruses in the wild that were using them, then people would have quickly found out about those bugs and patched them. I think the reason they stayed hidden for such a long time was nobody really exploited them.
You don't need to have 55 trillion dollars for the simple reason that you don't need to pay off all your debts in one lump sum. When you earn money you make a payment on your debt, and then the lender will probably use that money to buy stuff, or simply lend it again to someone else (who will use it to buy stuff). For example imagine if you are a grocer and make a payment to your banker, he can then turn around and buy something from you with that same money, which you can then use to make another payment to your debt, which the banker then uses again to buy something from you, and so on, until the entire debt is paid off. In effect, you've paid with goods in the end. Money was just the medium of exchange.
My guess is quality will go up as manufacturing leaves China
When it leaves China for what? Vietnam, India, Cambodia? Cause those are the countries with even cheaper labor. No, quality won't go up, you'll still get what you pay for.
I use PayPal because you don't have to disclose anything to the sellers, you don't give a credit card number. I've heard they charge a few percent of the entire sum for each transaction though.
I thought neutrinos almost never interact with more regular matter because they're too small to collide with atoms, how can they get their statistics?
Also, a lot of people who live near the Chinese border in North Korea can make phone calls to the outside world because there is cell phone coverage coming from China that extends a few miles across the border.
Yes, but IE9 has the disadvantage that it's not compatible with XP, so for 50% of the users the best version of IE they can access is IE8. I don't know how fast XP will fade but that alone might help Chrome and Firefox pick some converts who can't upgrade to IE9 because they're on XP.
I wish there could be an opt-in for having two passwords - one for regular sign-in, and one which you could use to reset your ordinary password in case it's compromised. The second password would never be used unless your first password is compromised, so it can't be intercepted. If it's complex enough that it can't be simply guessed, then I don't think you need any more security than that.
When you're resetting the password, you have to provide it, and then give the new password. At no point would Google send you the original password.
And more importantly, while they are sent abroad, their families are not.
If you're talking about Stuxnet, Israel is the prime suspect.
Yes, me.
Same thing happens a lot with torrent sites, if you search for a torrent that's not there you get a lot of results in sites where the page is created when someone searches for that torrent on the site. They usually create the page and then put links to it in a ''previous searches'' section in their site. That way when someone searches on google for that torrent he goes to that page. It's quite ingenious actually, you depend on the users themselves to create the content by asking questions, and then users that ask the same question on Google will land on your site. It's frustrating for me because I land on a page that just says ''no torrents found'', except for the sponsored ''full version''/''high speed download'' crap.
And how are they going to peg their currency to the dollar then? What happens with their competitive advantage? Suddenly Chinese goods will not be so cheap compared to other countries.
Iron is really a scam, it just hardcodes turning off a checkbox in Settings->Under the hood that has the following title: "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar". See, there is a checkbox in Chrome for turning off the 'evil' communicating with google's servers. But if someone thinks it's easier to download a fork rather than bother to go and uncheck that checkbox, then more power to them.
I found an iteresting article from the Chromium blog (at http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.html) where they post the logs the log of September 19, 2008 from their IRC channel where someone nicked <Iron> says he wants to make a 'privacy-oriented' fork of Chrome:
<Kmos> Iron: why not contribute to it, instead of forking ? ;) ;) ;) ;-) ;)
<Iron> because i removed all privacy-related code
<Iron> e.g. RLZ
<Iron> and URL tracking every 5 seconds after start
<Iron> the original chrome is heavily communitating to google...i
hate that
<jamessan> all of those are supposed to have options to disable them,
iirc
<Iron> yes but they haven't options yet
<Iron> and nobody knows when the next beta is released
<jamessan> so work on getting the options added so they'll be there
for the next release
<mgreenblatt> Iron.. why not propose a patch based on preprocessor
defines that disables the sections you dislike without
forking the code?
<mgreenblatt> (assuming such a thing doesn't already exist)
<Iron> because a fork will bring a lot of publicity to my person and
my homepage
<Iron> that means: a lot of money too
<Kmos> rotflol
<Iron> what means rotful?
<mgreenblatt> Iron.. you're a large corporation that can dedicate the
time to support a fork of something as complicated as
chromium?
<Kmos> Iron: google about it
<Iron> yes there is enough time to support it
<jamessan> heh, you're expecting to make lots of money from making a
fork of chromium? that's quite amusing
<Iron> i dont take money for my fork
<Iron> but i have adsense on my page
<Iron> a lot of visitor -> a lot of clicka > a lot of money
<Kmos> and do you think google should support your fork
<Kmos> lol
<mgreenblatt> Iron.. it's always good to have dreams
<Iron> we are here in germany
<Iron> the press will love my fork
<Iron> i talked to much journalists already
<DrPizza> Why are you forking?
<DrPizza> to do what?
<Iron> to remove all things in source talking to google
<jamessan> to get fame and fortune
<Iron> nobody here trusts google
<Iron> the german people say: google is very evil
<jamessan> yet you use google's adsense
Don't forget the price was 'insanely' cheap. If someone offered you a 500 GB disk for say $10 that later turned out not to work, I guess you would be excused from being called a sucker, but only if you honestly believed it was stolen.
I have no idea why, but the submitter put a link to the mobile version of the CNBC article. I noticed the URL is http://m.cnbc.com/id/39618344/, and removed the 'm.' part, and the page loaded, no problem.
PulseAudio has a problem for me when I switch to another user account in Ubuntu, and then switch back, the sound has become muted, even though the volume control shows it's supposed to be unmuted, and I need to mute and then unmute it with the Fn keys, and then increase/decrease the volume, before I can hear sound again.
Well they don't seem to be as successfult with killing the iPad as they were with killing the PenPoint.
The money collected by Apple mostly goes for the expenses of running the Appstore. It might not contribute much to Apple's net profits.
I don't live in the U.S., and half the people I know under 30 use Facebook but I don't know anyone that uses Twitter. I wonder how Twitter fares outside America.